Youth theater building. Russian Academic Youth Theater

The Russian Youth Academic Theater (RAMT) is a temple of art, where traditions and experience are uniquely combined with modern trends, new forms and genres. The idea of ​​creation belongs to Natalya Sats, who in the acute post-revolutionary times tried to look into the future of dramatic art with new eyes.

History of creation

The Youth Academic Russian Theater (first name - Moscow, opened in 1921 with the play “Adalmina’s Pearl.” Topelius’s tale was staged by the unknown but gifted director I. Novikov. A. Vesnin was appointed as the designer and chief artist, who not only prepared sketches of costumes and scenery, but also wrote advertising posters, and also created the first version of the theater emblem.

The theater was renamed for the second time after the premiere of “Seryozha Streltsov” by author V. Lyubimova in 1936. Central children's theater known and loved not only in Moscow, but throughout Russia. The touring group traveled all over big cities countries and friendly states. In 1992, the theater received the name that we can still see on posters today - Russian Academic youth theater(RAMT). In 1987 it was given academic status.

Let's give a statement artistic director A. Borodin regarding the name: “According to Dahl, “youth” includes such age concepts like childhood and adolescence. With our name we envision a unique repertoire for all viewers. “Young children with their parents, teenagers and senior citizens will always find performances that suit their interests.”

Unique building

The building (the modern Youth Academic Russian Theater) was originally planned as a dramatic institution and was built according to the design of F. M. Shestakov in 1821 according to all the rules of a stage room. Acoustic data, stage layout and auditorium correspond high standards design. The Moscow architect I. O. Bove, who led the reconstruction of Moscow after the fire that destroyed part of the capital in 1812, took part in the project.

The building is an architectural monument and historical heritage. Initially, artists from touring theaters from Yaroslavl and St. Petersburg played there. Creative nobles who had serf theaters brought performances to be shown to the Moscow public. The building at that time was known as the Shelaputin drama. In the middle of the century, A. N. Ostrovsky often gathered the Artistic Circle in this room. New Imperial Theater took several years convenient platform for performances, but abandoned it for unknown reasons. Until 1917, Zimin’s opera operated here; after 1921, M. A. Chekhov had the stage and directed the 2nd Moscow Art Theater. After the Great Patriotic War The Maly Theater operated in the premises.

Alexey Vladimirovich Borodin

In 1980, Alexey Borodin took over the management of the theater. Was born famous director in 1941 in China, in the city of Qingdao. Until the age of 80 he worked as the chief director at the Kirov Youth Theater. In 1987 he received the title people's artist. Since 1971 he has been a teacher at RATI (academy

Alexey Vladimirovich came to the Russian Academic Youth Theater with his production team: director E. Dolgina and set designer S. Benediktov. The first performance on new stage based on Hugo's novel "Les Miserables" receives State Prize. In 1983, Borodin opened the Small Stage with a production of Ostrovsky’s play “Poverty is not a Vice.”

Significant events

The production based on B. Akunin’s novel “Ernest Fandorin” was such a success among the audience that the author wrote a dramatization of “Yin and Yang” (two versions) for the theater. Alexey Borodin stages both performances, where the younger generation of actors works alongside the stage masters.

An event of grandiose scale is the “Coast of Utopia” in 2007. The trilogy of short stories received a super prize at the competition theatrical productions « Golden mask" After the project was shown in Spain, the Murdo observer called the performance a masterpiece.

In the 2009-2010 season, the Youth Academic Russian Theater produced 13 performances. This list includes productions by Borodin himself and a galaxy of young directors within the creative laboratory.

Repertoire that can be seen today

"Scarlet Sails". Performance for seniors school age and teenagers based on the story of the same name by A. Green. The idea is how to preserve the dream in a world where everyone has forgotten about the miracle. Young Assol and brave Gray, through the storms of the ocean and human mistrust, strive for the light of their beacon.

“The Shore of Utopia” is a project of three productions. Philosophy of revolution - what is it? Destruction of the old or the fight for the freedom of each individual?

"Fearless gentleman." Fairy tale-mystery based on the stories of Carnival characters of folklore.

"Buddenbrooks." Dramatization of T. Mann's autobiography, life old Europe, way of life and concepts of several generations of one family.

"On the road". Romantic story about two lovers based on Rozov's play. There is only love in the world, everything else is just a carousel of unnecessary or simply everyday events.

"In the Burning Darkness" Peace and joy reign at the school for blind teenagers; like all people, they know how to love passionately and enjoy life. But one day a newcomer comes to the group who fiercely resists his illness. Is he right? Vallejo's play - our life. People often turn a blind eye to the cruel truth so as not to destroy their inner world.

The Russian Academic Youth Theater (address: building 2) has in its repertoire such performances for children and adults as “ The Cherry Orchard", "Wizard Emerald City», « Magic ring", "Gupeshka", "Deniska's stories" and others.

Theater clubs

Since 1957, clubs for fans of dramatic art have opened at the theater.

• Arts Club.
• Theater section.
• Family club.
• Theater Dictionary.

The Russian Academic Loves RAMT has brought these small organizations of Melpomene fans under its wing; grateful viewers do not miss a single premiere, rejoicing at the success of their favorite actors, well-deserved awards and recognition.

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“The roar of trams. All colorful, the square either moves forward, then suddenly stops, and thousands of human heads raise their eyes upward: flocks of airplanes are rushing over Moscow - sometimes in a goose triangle, sometimes changing formation, like pieces of glass in a kaleidoscope.”
V.A. Gilyarovsky,
"Moscow and Muscovites"

One of the central squares of Moscow, Teatralnaya, has a long and very rich history. Before its construction began, there was a real swamp here - because the Neglinnaya River flowed through the square - on the site of the current Central Department Store and the Maly Theater, with a smooth bend crossing the square diagonally, feeding the Kremlin moat with water. But this did not prevent traders from selling flowers along its banks during periods free from floods. That's why she wore long years such a romantic name - Flower Square.

History of Neglinka

However, Muscovites did not like this square: it smelled painfully bad, and the Neglinka River often overflowed its banks, spilling sewage onto the surface, which more than once caused typhoid epidemics. Moscow journalist and researcher Vladimir Gilyarovsky, known as Uncle Gilyai, writes about it this way: “In addition to the “legal” sewer pipes drawn from the streets for rain and utility water, most wealthy homeowners installed secret underground drains in Neglinka to discharge sewage, instead of transport them in barrels, as was the case everywhere in Moscow before the construction of sewerage systems. And all this sewage went into the Moscow River.”

Wooden bridge, thrown across the river in 1488, during times of heavy rains and river floods, it was the only possible route for passers-by and crews. But even if it continued across the entire square, it was not convenient enough to move around. The bridge was called Petrovsky in honor of the nearby Petrovka Street (following them, the square will receive its new name - Petrovskaya). But in 1516, a pond will be dug in the southern part of the square, Neglinnaya will be blocked by a dam, and it will no longer flood the square.
The pond through an underground tunnel will continue to provide water to the Kremlin moat. And after him from 1538 years will pass the fortress wall of Kitay-Gorod with a “water gate” through which the townspeople will come to the pond for water.
However, it is unlikely that the bridge will no longer be necessary - A. Vasnetsov’s painting clearly shows that the bridge, which began in the Cannon Yard area and stretched across the entire Petrovskaya Square for 256 meters in the 17th century, still exists.

The rubbish and sewage behind the dam will continue to accumulate, and the smell from them will continue to disturb passers-by. But not the city authorities, because the river will be removed underground only by the end of the 18th century, transferring it into a specially dug underground channel.

And here Neglinka’s story will not end yet. The canal will release wastewater into the Moscow River, and the pipes of the underground river will not be cleaned; The authorities' indifference to this place will make it a den for many generations of criminals.
Vladimir Gilyarovsky once descended into these pipes, accompanied by “locals”:

“I pulled my hunting boots higher, buttoned up my leather jacket and began to descend. Elbows and shoulders touched the walls of the pipe. With my hands I had to firmly hold on to the dirty steps of the vertical, swaying staircase, supported, however, by the workers who remained at the top. With every step down, the stench became stronger and stronger. It was getting creepy. Finally, the sound of water and squelching was heard. I looked up. All I could see was a quadrangle of blue, bright sky and the face of the worker holding the ladder. A cold, bone-piercing dampness overcame me.”

The reporter's note he wrote about the central underground cesspool stimulates the putting of Neglinka's pipes in order. But such cleansing will require regular repetition. And the river will again be clogged, especially near the Maly Theater. Only in 1926 the Moscow Council will clean the waters of the river and divert it from the Maly Theater.

Development of the area

In his amazing book-research “From the history of Moscow streets” Pyotr Vasilyevich Sytin says that the territory Theater Square historically refers to White City. In the 16th and 17th centuries, mainly boyars and nobles who were in the royal service lived here. Their land was called “white” - which means exempt from land taxes.
Already in the 14th century Zaneglimenie– West Side White City- was fairly built up by people from Rzhev, Veliky Ustyug, Novgorod, Tver and Dmitrov. In the 15th century, the western part of the White City was built up with “country” courtyards of boyars and other nobility, churches and monasteries. Foreigners who came to Moscow a century later paid attention to a large number of churches in the city.

There were also churches in the square. Opposite the entrance to the current RAMT there is a stone Church of the Transfiguration on Kopje(existed until 1817). And opposite modern Bolshaya Dmitrovka and the end of the RAMT building, approximately where the street is now Okhotny Ryad goes into Teatralny Proezd, appeared on 1458 Church of Anastasia the Pattern Maker with a cemetery. In 1723, Peter the Great, decisively rebuilding Moscow, by his decree forbade burying the dead in the city center, but the cemetery at this temple is still for a long time remained. The temple will be demolished in 1793 according to the plan for the regulation of Moscow and the creation of Okhotny Ryad Square.

In general, the city began to resemble a city, and the square began to resemble a square, precisely under Peter. In the 16th century Moscow was still wooden, its streets are paved with wooden logs.
In the 17th century, the main streets of the White City were already covered wooden pavements with sidewalks made of logs and boards, across numerous rivers and streams are thrown bridges. There was no lighting at that time, passers-by walked with hand-held lanterns, and the path for the carriages of the nobility and the rich was illuminated by mounted servants riding in front and on the sides with lanterns.

In 1700 and 1705 Peter I issues decrees to pave the streets within the Boulevard Ring with cobblestones. And since 1712 - about the development of the White City stone buildings, adjacent to one another. By the end of the 18th century, he himself would no longer exist, but all his decrees would be carried out.

Peter either forbade or punished building in the White City stone buildings, until after his death, in 1728, the Supreme Privy Council issued a decree according to which it was allowed to erect stone and wooden buildings in Moscow “whoever wants what,” and wherever he wants.

However, at the end of the 18th century, on the main streets of the White City there were mostly stone houses of 2-3 floors, and in some places - real palaces. The streets were already covered cobblestone street and sidewalks made of crushed stone, with the onset of darkness on poles every 20 meters they burned oil lanterns(kerosene lamps will appear on the streets in 1865, gas lamps in 1869, and then electric lighting in 1896).

The new development was also facilitated by the great Moscow fire of 1737, when all the wooden courtyards burned down. By the middle of the 18th century, the courtyard between Pushkinskaya Street (now Bolshaya Dmitrovka) and the square belonged to princes of Cherkassy. To the east - on the square itself there were courtyards of princes Turkestan and Golitsyn. Opposite the Maly Theater on the square courtyards of the Prince of Siberia. On the site of the Bolshoi Theater park stood a tavern "Petrovsky circled."

Opposite B. Dmitrovka on the even side of the current Okhotny Ryad at the end of the 18th century there was school for training architectural students of Prince Ukhtomsky.
Next to the school to the east there was a large courtyard with wooden buildings and a garden towards the Neglinnaya River. To the east of the courtyard there are wooden baths with a large well. In front of the bathhouse there is a pancake shop - a small shop selling pancakes.

In general, something special needs to be said about the baths. In everyday life, Muscovites were clean, they loved to wash and steam, and therefore there were many bathhouses in the White City - both commercial and in courtyards. To the south of the Petrovsky Bridge there were two wooden baths with cranes supplying water from the river. And in 1838-1842, on the site of the current " Metropol" merchant Chelyshev built two-storey house the facade was similar to the Maly Theater, inside of which there were the same bathhouses beloved by Muscovites!
But the streets were poorly cleaned. In the 17th century, they even had to issue decrees obliging people to clean the streets in front of their yards and take garbage out of the city.

Fire of 1812 – new story area

The fire of 1812 made adjustments to the design of the square. After him, large construction began under the leadership of the architect O. Bove. Many residential buildings were built in classical style, decorated with columns, stucco moldings, bas-reliefs. Moscow was at that time noble capital and served for the most part nobles, which is why in the White City, in addition to mansions and palaces, there were noble institutions: the University and the Noble noble assembly, and Manege, and, of course, theaters - which were all built in the same classic style. The streets were covered with asphalt in some places.

In 1817-1821, on the site of courtyards, the Church of the Savior on Kopye and Petrovskaya Street, a square with modern outlines was planned. On the site of the Medox Theater (who, together with Prince Urusov, bought Golitsyn’s house and set it up Petrovsky Public Theater) in 1824 the architect Beauvais builds Grand Theatre, and in the same year - Maly Theater, leased to the theater management and acquired by it for the treasury only in 1830. On the square on the sides of the passage to Okhotny Ryad there were stone houses. On the northern corner - house of K.M. Poltoratsky, built in 1821 (now the RAMT building), on the south - Senate Printing House(1818-1821). In the 1830s they were obliged to make their facades similar to the Maly Theater. Since 1829, the square has already been called Teatralnaya - after the theaters located on it.

New house was a copy of the merchant V. Vargin who stood opposite the house. The first floor was occupied by shops and open gallery, the second was residential.

In 1840, the house was transferred to the merchant P.A. Bronnikov, and here an artistic circle began to gather under the leadership of A.N. Ostrovsky. The Artistic Circle Theater became one of the first private theaters in Russia.

I had the pleasure of knowing the mother of hacks personally. She was a person of unknown age, without a name or patronymic, who silently and mysteriously appeared at dusk at the entrance of the Artistic Circle (she was not allowed into the Circle), and here, on the stairs, she fished out those she needed. In her sleeved coat and eared bonnet, she resembled bat. Small, nimble and toothless.
Her name was Shkamorda.
Where does this surname come from? She insisted that her ancestor was Bogdan Khmelnytsky.
Be that as it may, instead of the current acting term “to hack,” in 1875 in Moscow there was “shkamordit.”

In 1889 A.S. Kaminsky rebuilt the building, and in 1898 B. Freidenberg remodeled it for the theater of the entrepreneur and director M.V. Lentovsky.

Since then, the building of the Russian Academic Youth Theater has remained virtually unchanged.

Lentovsky wanted to create an exemplary drama theater with a varied repertoire, where operetta, extravaganza, and drama would coexist. In September 1898, the Imperial Palace opened here. new theater. The youth of Maly and Bolshoi Theaters. The Lentovsky Theater operated until 1936.